Time for Change
Feeling inspiration from others who’ve been redesigning, I finally decided it’s time to take this site’s design in a slightly new direction. I’ve been working on this one in the background for a while, whenever I’ve had spare time. The colors were inspired by a photo I took of the Brockton Point Lighthouse in Stanley Park while visiting Vancouver last year for the AIGA National Design Conference.
The column structure is basically the same, though I’ve shifted some of the content and navigation around. The redesign is still partially in progress, so bear with me while I continue to update pages throughout the site. All feedback is welcome. Love it? Hate it? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments for this entry.
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Shouldn’t this entry be entitled ‘time to put on the flak jacket’?
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Kristian"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
This is fantastic. I can’t stop laughing.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Ruth"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Sharing the love with Dave (http://www.mezzoblue.com/) I see… wouldn’t have anything to do with it being the 1st day of April…
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You both are sick.
I don’t know which site I’m reading anymore.
Talk about applied usability. Tsk tsk.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "s t e f"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
very clever. one of the best CSS jokes ever. :)
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Micah Goulart"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Muhaha
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Ischa Gast"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
exchanging the 2 sites is a really funny idea
congrats
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Conspi"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Please tell all of us that this is some sort of practical joke.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Chris M. Cooper"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
duh, i should have known. /bonk.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Chris M. Cooper"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Hehe, I was confused for a moment, jumping back and forth between here and Mezzoblue. I kept thinking, “I know I’m tired, but wtf?!”
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "mjh"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
please..please tell me how to get the *stupid* grin of my face. I still have to talk to my clients today…
creativity rulez!!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "-jw-"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
This is both brilliant and hilarious, and beats any April Fools’ stuff that’ll be posted on Slashdot today. You and Dave rock in both shared and separate ways.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Andrew Dupont"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
well, at least, you got the comment page look like mezzoblue too, but it’s a shame only doing it on the blog part :)
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "ephi"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Niiiiiiiice …… I heard mezzoblue also redesigned recently …
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Jordi"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
That’ll teach me to quit working into the wee hours too many months in a row.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "France"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Ack… Mr. Dave Bowman and Mr. Douglas Shea stealing each other’s design… what is the world coming too?!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Jonathan Stanley"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
I would never imagine this from stopdesign!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "GaBuBu"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
looooool…
This is so funny…
Good one, really good one…
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Subzero Blue"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Except for the 1st of April! I guess in 24 hours everything will be back to normal! :D
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "GaBuBu"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
I was more than a little confused for a short while…
I only realised that this wasn’t Mezzoblue when I noticed the site was flickering like a maniac in IE6…
A nice April Fools :D
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Michael Ward"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Awesome. Simply awesome. Best one I came across so far.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Dominik Droescher"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Great joke - your CSS hadn’t downloaded at the time I had to unplug and dash for the morning commute, so i saw it completely unstyled - but when I saw Dave Shea’s site I knew what you guys had done. I haven’t laughed out loud on the train for ages!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "chrisp"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Should have seen this coming.
CSS: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Design theft is in an increasing problem
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "arjenvr"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
You know, I think I prefer to see Dave’s content in Doug’s design and vice versa… All this time spent struggling to get it right and a swap solves all your problems!
Other swaps in the pipeline, surely? How about Zeldman / useit.com? Microsoft / Apple?
Keep it up, fellas.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "LintHuman"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
3 words - OH MY GOD! :)
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "jinesh"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "dnr"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Superb.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Pete F."; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Classic!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Cam"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Absolutely best.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Rimantas"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
This correspondent is impressed. This correspendent also refers to himself in third person.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Jesper"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Frickin’ genius. Good work.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "David Barrett"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
friggin hilarious!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "ray"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Brilliant! Kudos to you and Dave!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Ben de Groot"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
heh heh!
took a millisecond, but I got there
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Richard Earney"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
super!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Filosof"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Nice work Doug. It’s great that you were able to get some inspiration on your trip to Vancouver; it’s a beautiful city!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Mike P."; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
LOL. Really good one for today.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "mini-d"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Amazing… truly amazing! Nice work boys!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "David B"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
I love it!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Joe Kaczmarek"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Not to be getting off topic but when your site is viewed in high contrast mode in win2k your news feeds heading and time/date stamp overlap each other.
Back on subject - good design and I hope that you keep designing more frequently its good to check out quality sites as yours. Good day.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Kris Leslie"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
OK that was SOME April Fool joke!!!
Well done!!! Had me in stitches when I finally copped on to it…
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Philip Murphy"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Two spectacular redesigns in one day. Where do you guys find the time and inspiration to come up with these things? Nice photo too! </naïveté>
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Shaun Inman"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Stop!
Thief!
::grin::
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "ben"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Best. Aprils fools joke. Evar.
I’m still laughing, I think this was done brilliantly well, good karma to both of you for this great joke!
However, I do wanna know… who came up with the idea? :)
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Faruk Ates"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Poisson d’Avril. ;)
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "karsh"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Comrades,
That has got to be the funniest thing I have seen (since I looked in the mirror this morning!)
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Malarkey"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
heh…cute idea…
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Patrick H. Lauke"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
This is the best online April Fool’s joke I’ve seen since ResExcellence announced they would become a pay site. Thanks for the morning laugh.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Chris Vincent"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
You guys are awesome. This is just too funny!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Ryan Brill"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Your an ass, I want to beat you with a stick! :P
Nah nice prank. Took me ages to work out what the hell was going on, thought it was my browser fucked up.
ARGH!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Stew"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Well, it bet my April Fools Joke…
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Robert Wellock"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Very well done. It’s like website schizophrenia!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "August Trometer"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
I can only hope this is a AFDJ, because if it isn’t.. then I am just shocked to hell.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Alistair"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Spotless mind, heh… this is pretty deviant, don’t you think Doug? : )
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Josh Williams"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
too funny. i knew there were going to be a lot of april fool’s day gags on the net today and yet i still did a double take when the site loaded.
just beautiful.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "pea"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Argh! my head!
I can’t cope with all this bouncing back and forth. I feel like I have watched to much cricket. Must stop taking these drugs, becuase I am seeing things.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Phil Baines"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Oh, s**t!!!!!!!!!
You know when I first double-clicked in from NetNewsWire, I didn’t get it. I thought I landed on stopdesign’s site by accident even though the link I was clicking on said mezzoblue.
Supa freakin’ cool guys, still provin’ to the community that y’all are the man!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Mike"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
I think the best part is all the set up you guys did. You in your panel at SXSW and Dave on his site. Classic.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Keith"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
^_^
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Zelnox"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
damn, took me a second to “get it”… co-workers looking at me with that strange look on their faces as i busted out laughing…. hahahahaha
*claps and cheers* Bravo! Bravo!
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Classic, just classic. I saw Dave’s site first, then started laughing, them came here and laughed some more.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Andrea Piernock"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
LOL! Best April Fool’s in a while!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "beto"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
both of you rule ;-)
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "afrael"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
You’re both too funny! I really needed a laugh today! Thanks. :D
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Linda"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
You two are crazy…but very original, I had a nice laugh.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "marv"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH! That’s got to be the funniest April Fool’s joke ever! I love it.
Keep it up Dave! Err….. Douglas!…. Errrr…… ?!?! Whoever!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Daedlus"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
very convincing, I actually had to view the comments before I got it. The reasoning and photograph on the front page made it very convincing!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "woozy"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
I have to admit, I visited this site first and bought it for a minute. I kept looking at it, thinking “um… err… this looks a lot like… certainly he knows…”
Hats off to you gents. But you honestly do need to tell us how/when you hatched the plan and which one of you came up with the idea. Certainly there had to be adult beverages involved. :}
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Ed Sharrer"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Oh right, April fools. Good one =D
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Tate"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Beautifully orchestrated. *Hats off*
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "blake"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Simply brilliant. This is the best thing on the Internet today.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "supercrisis"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Oh Doug… what have I done… Sleep deprived and stressed and having to DO something before I leave for a conf… I checked your site… and had a FIT! I mean not only did I not get it… in the wee hours… but I shared with a colleague how completely… never mind! I fell for it.
Colleague DID write back to mention which date it is… More power to you(s)… back to the pile.
.c
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Carole Guevin"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
HAHAHA. Oh god, that photo just frickn’ topped it.
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Brian"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Ooops, and I fell for it! DOH!! LOL!! It was funny and inspired though :D
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Panagiotis Galatis"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
wow, that threw me for a loop for a bit….im still spinning!!! oh noo!
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Joey"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
Man, I wonder how dave feels about that photo? Are you implying that is how he got his inspiration? lol.
I wanna hear the story of the night you cames concieved this plan!!
p.s. the comment form is all messed up in firefox. :)
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Phil Baines"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
LMAO. I was like wth is going on!!!
I’m still laughing…
Posted by 0) $commenturl = true; if ($commenturl) echo ""; echo "Yannick"; if ($commenturl) echo ""; $commenturl = false; ?> on at §
uhauhauahauhauhauahauhauhaua…..Very Good!!!
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